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“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader”
John Dryden
“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: / Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”
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“Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!”
Stephen Gillers
“Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.”
Baltasar Gracian
“For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum”
Thomas Jefferson
“We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance”
Herbert Spencer
“If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.”
William Blackstone
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